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No. 63.823. Patented April 16, 1867 N.FEFERS, PHOTo-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D, c.

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Letters Patent No. 63,823, dated April 16,1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that 1, JOHN ALLEN, of Palmer, Hampdeu county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toe-Gall; Dies; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, refereilce being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon; In these drawings- I Figure 1 represents a side view of my invention; and

Figure 2 a plan view of the same.

My invention consists of an improvement in the construction and arrangement of the die used by B. Oaswell in his method of forming toe-calks upon horse-shoes. In Caswells die, which consisted simply of a bed or block of metal, with sockets cut into it to suit the shape of, the calks, there was a liability to get it filled up with the scales of metal and other trash. In my invention, however, I obviate this by the following construction of the tool:

I form my die of the bed A, having the tongue B and platesabc, the latter fastened on by screws or other proper means so as to be adjustable. These plates have bevels, d cf, &c., .cut in their edges, so that when two are put together they form the socket; and different sizes of the same are made, so that all the desired sizes of sockets can be obtained by the proper arrangement of the plates. Under these sockets are placed grooves, I) and E, which catch the scales which fall from the iron through the sockets, the latter being made open underneath the bevelled edges, not being brought quite together at the bottom. In this manner the sockets can be kept always free and clean, as the trash can be easily blown out or pushed through the grooves D and E, which are open at both ends. Another; advantage is the adjustability of the difierent sizes'of sockets to the searched, so that only one bed need be used for all the varieties of calks, as any number of plates can be used to suit them.

New, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A toe-calk die, constructed of the plates at b c, with the grooves d efg, arranged and constructed substan- JOHN'ALLEN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD H. HYDE,

J. E. FULLER. 

